Provenance:Said to have been purchased at Lan-Chou Fu, Kansu in 1934 by N.S. Brown, collector; his sale, Sotheby’s 29 January 1948, lot 36, purchased by Bluett & Sons, (4 items, £30 for lot) for Sir William Burrell, £7.10.0; by whom gifted to the Corporation of the City of Glasgow, 1948.

Printed sources
Arthur de Carle Sowerby, ‘The Neolithic Pottery of Kansu. Burial urns and other vessels in the N.S. Brown Collection’, The China Journal, Vol.22, No.6, June 1935, pp.300-303, illus opposite p.301.
Sotheby & Co., 29 January 1948, Chinese ceramics and works of art, etc., comprising the property of the late N.S. Brown, Esq., sold by order of the Administrators, and others. Lot 36 (part) A bowl with flared rim and traces of two handles, the exterior with parallel bands in red and black, the interior of the rim with fret-like ornament, 6 1/8in; Pan Shan. [Burrell purchased all items in the lot, see also 38_22, 38_41 & 38_1388].